Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading-Edge Engineering from the 2011 Symposium

This issue includes repots given at the NAE Symposium in September 2011. This book covers four general topics from the 2011 symposium: additive manufacturing, semantic processing, engineering sustainable buildings, and neuro-prosthetics. The papers provide an overview of the challenges and opportunities of these fields of inquiry, and communicate the excitement of discovery.
The additive manufacturing session described how technologies such as stereolithography, fused deposition modeling, 3D printing, selective laser melting, laser-engineered net shape processes, ultrasonic consolidation, and selective laser sintering enable layer-wise fabrication of complex parts directly from CAD files without part-specific tooling.

The 2011 symposium was held September 19-21, and hosted by Google at their headquarters in Mountain View, California.
The practice of engineering is continually changing. At the U.S. Frontiers of Engineer Symposium, engineers have the opportunity to learn from their peers about pioneering work being done in many areas of engineering.

Contents
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
Introduction
Additive Manufacturing Technologies: Technology Introduction and Business Implications
Additive Manufacturing in Aerospace: Examples and Research Outlook
Additive Manufacturing Is Changing Surgery
The Shape of Things to Come: Frontiers in Additive Manufacturing
SEMANTIC PROCESSING
Introduction
Automatic Text Understanding of Content and Text Quality
Advancing Natural Language Understanding with Collaboratively
Generated Content
Large-Scale Visual Semantic Extraction
Searching for Statistical Diagrams
ENGINEERING SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS
Introduction
Challenges and Opportunities for Low-Carbon Buildings
Expanding Design Spaces
Opportunities and Challenges for Multiscale Modeling of Sustainable Buildings
Accelerating Green Building Market Transformation with Information Technology
NEUROPROSTHETICS
Introduction
Retinal Prosthetic Systems for Treatment of Blindness
The Evolution of Brain-Computer Interfaces
Ultra Low-Power Biomedical and Bio-Inspired Systems
APPENDIXES
Contributors
Program
Participants

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